Hattiesburg native Jake Nurkin, a senior computer science major at Hendrix College in Arkansas, wrote a play titled “Backwoods Beast” that won second place in a student playwriting competition.
Gaven Wallace
Contributing Reporter Gaven Wallace is a writer based out of Hattiesburg, Miss., where he attends the University of Southern Mississippi in pursuit of a Masters of the Arts in creative writing. During his undergraduate career, he earned the O’Hara-Mackaman Endowment for fiction writing. His work can be found in journals such as Sky Island Journal and West Trade Review. He especially enjoys reading contemporary fiction and poetry with an eye for the postmodern, such as the works of Jennifer Eagan and David Mitchell.
